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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Celebrities
- Spears Taken From Home in Ambulance
- Britney Spears was taken from her home by ambulance early Thursday and escorted to the hospital by more than a dozen police officers.
- Psychology Board Investigates Dr. Phil
- TMZ has obtained a copy of a complaint against Dr. Phil which was lodged with the California Board of Psychology, alleging the TV doc was illegally practicing without a license when he paid a visit to one Britney Spears.
- Hollywood Stars, Milla Jovovich is Slim Again
- The actress, model and fashion designer Milla Iovovich famously gained more than 30 kg just for four month of her pregnancy. She was even called 'enormous Milla'. But just two months after the delivery Milla greatly managed to loose weight surprising those around.
- Paris On Harlow Winter
- "It's the coolest name ever," ..."I'm like, 'That is the coolest name, oh my God!' I wouldn't even think she would have thought of that. It's a beautiful name." "Nicole is so into it," she said of the name Harlow. "She always knows what's cool before it happens."
- Olivia Wilde Photo Shoot: Thirteen Never Looked So Good!
- On the set of House, it’s apparent that they can’t make Olivia Wilde look as glamorous and beautiful as she does in these photos.
- German historian likens Cruise speech to Goebbels
- Footage of actor 'recalls notorious speech' Critics say Scientology is anti-constitutional
- Colbert Portrait Hanging in National Portrait Gallery
- The National Portrait Gallery confirmed this morning that Colbert's portrait is in fact now hanging above the bathroom on the 2nd floor, just outside of the America’s Presidents exhibit.
- Miley Cyrus Changes Her Name!
- "Hannah Montana" herself, MILEY CYRUS, has legally changed her name! The teen superstar has changed her name to Miley Ray Cyrus, making her nickname, "Miley," official and adding the middle name of her dad, country music star BILLY RAY CYRUS.
- Maxim nominates the Hottest Pregnant Women
- I think Maxim did an amazing job on this 9 women looking fabulous while pregnant!
- Wesley Snipes to Go on Trial in Tax Case
- From 1999 to 2004, the actor Wesley Snipes earned $38 million appearing in more than half a dozen movies, including two sequels to his popular vampire thriller “Blade.” The taxes he paid in the same period? Zero.
- Channing Tatum Unwrapped
- Brad does such an incredible job of recreating the following photos that most of his drawings look like black and white photo copies of the original photos.
- Off the Market! - Couples, George Clooney, Matthew McConaughey
- George Clooney and Matthew McConaughey getting serious? Say it isn't so! How two down-to-earth beauties snagged the Sexiest Boyfriends Alive
- Amy Winehouse wallpaper
- Our Amy Winehouse picture gallery has a great choice of desktop wallpaper images and PSP backgrounds. They're all free and high-quality, with no logos or watermarks, so enjoy!
- Alicia Keys Wallpaper
- Here they are collection of Alicia Keys desktop themes wallpaper. All images are in high quality with 1024×768 pixel. They will fits to your windows vista desktop or Mac OSX background very well.
Economic News
- Overseas Investors Buy Aggressively in U.S
- For much of the world, the United States is now on sale at discount prices.
- Increases in the National Debt Chart
- Graphic chart of increases in the National Debt Chart from 1776 to present
- Will The Truly Efficient Market Please Stand Up?
- "...it sure feels to us as if we're entering 2008 with some of the most pressing issues for the financial markets and real economy we've faced in quite some time. Very important fundamental issues that for now remain very unresolved."
- Study Shows Huge Gap Between Rents and House Prices
- A new study by former and current Federal Reserve economists tracked rents and home prices back to 1960 and found the current rent-price ratio is well below its long-term average. The economists suggest house prices will need to fall considerably over the next five years to be in line with rents.
- Go ahead, egg my Hummer, says Russian
- A Hummer owner in Russia's second city St. Petersburg has given antiglobalists the green light to pelt his oversized vehicle with rotten eggs
- Consumers cut spending, worry more as economy weakens
- Across America, there are growing signs that consumers are worried about the weakening economy, which could slip into recession.
- City of debt shows US housing woe
- The city of Stockton in California is at the centre of the mortgage crisis now sweeping America. Because, with house prices tumbling, more people in Stockton face the repossession of their homes than anywhere else in the US.
- What to do if you’re laid off in 2008 recession
- Here’s some tips I learned...
- The great fall of China
- "China, it turns out, isn't a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size."
- Recession in the US 'has arrived'
- The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch.
- Highly Skilled And Out Of Work
- Long-Term Joblessness Spreads in Middle Class
- Home Prices Post Record Decline, S&P: U.S. Home Prices...
- U.S. home prices fell in October for the 10th consecutive month, posting their largest drop since early 1991, according to a key index
- Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world
- “it’s by far the most sophisticated counterfeiting operation in the world,” said James Kolbe, a former congressman from Arizona who oversaw funding for the Secret Service. “We are not certain as to how this is being done or how it’s happening.”
- Bronze sculptures end up being sold for scrap in Vermont
- Thirty stolen bronze sculptures are valued at $1 million - not by the scrap yards where most of them ended up.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
People
- Top 10s On Live Science
- 10 Things You Didn't Know About You
- How Can I Teach My Child to Be a Good and Happy Person?
- Probably the best way is through modeling the things you want them to learn. The second best way is through repetition of your message. But if your actions don’t match your words, children will follow your actions before they follow your words.
- The Waking Up Syndrome
- Few of us are eager to contemplate, let alone truly face, these looming changes. ...as the edges of our familiar reality begin to ravel, more and more people are reacting psychologically. A noticeable pattern of behavior is emerging. We call this pattern the Waking Up Syndrome, and it unfolds in six stages...
- I-Reporter's wedding cake is a full-size likeness of herself
- Chidi Ogbuta of Allen, Texas, gets wedding cake that looks just like her. Bride had longtime fantasy of having a doll modeled after her. Cake fulfilled bride's dream, and took about a week to finish off. Five pictures
- Inventor sacrifices family, savings to help world's poor
- Nunez wonders if he'd get more respect if he hailed from Silicon Valley instead of this tiny Central American nation, where he toils in obscurity at a small private university.
- Best Man Vs. Woman Explanation I've Ever Read
- ...the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play.
- Easy ways to exit awkward situations
- Here are some tips on how to gracefully and painlessly remove yourself from sticky social situations.
- 50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic
- Here are a list of 50 things you can do to express your love.
- 50 Things Men Wish You Knew
- Universal guy truths that all women should understand
- Why people believe weird things about money
- Would you rather earn $50,000 a year while other people make $25,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 a year while other people get $250,000?
- The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World’s Toughest Race
- ...this humble old man proved all the critics wrong.Cliff Young, at 61 years of age, participated in 1983’s Sydney to Melbourne race. Considered to be the world’s toughest race...
- How I Taught My Preschooler the Value of a Dollar
- What began as a way to motivate Sam to stop throwing temper tantrums turned into an exercise where he learned that he must work hard to afford expensive things.
- Amazing Facts About Your Body
- Your body is the most amazing machine ever built. Highly adaptive and resistant. No man-built systems can be compared to human body in its complexity and perfection! Here are some amazing facts you may find interesting:
- Unknowing twins marry each other
- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said.
- Resignation as an adult
- To whom it may concern: I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.
- One Red Paperclip
- A man wanted to trade a paperclip for a house. It took him a year, but he did it.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Health News
- Ten Secrets to Being HAPPY!
- The following are my Top 10 Tips to increase happiness in your life:
- India faces bird flu 'disaster'
- Eight districts in the eastern state of West Bengal have been hit by the virus, with dead birds being sold to locals who are said to be "feasting" on cheap chicken.
- Mobiles linked to disturbed sleep
- Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night's sleep, research suggests.
- 10-Fold Life Span Extension Reported
- Biologists have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.
- The 6 Most Unsettling Medication Side Effects
- Behold, six side effects that would suck for anyone unlucky enough to experience them, while being indisputably awesome for any onlooker with a video camera and a YouTube account.
- M.D. Anderson's cancer fight turns to toxic toad venom
- A Houston hospital known for seeking the most advanced cancer therapies that modern science can develop is turning its attention to a centuries-old Chinese treatment: toad venom.
- Cold-Fighting Foods
- chicken soup isn’t the only food that might help. Here’s a daily menu based on experts’ recommendations.
- New Study May Have Found a Way to Reverse Alzheimer's...
- An amazing new study, published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, has documented improvement in the brain of a patient suffering from Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administrating a therapeutic molecule.
- Hospital wrongly records blood group of kidney transplant...
- The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust has come under the scanner after staff wrongly recorded the blood group of a kidney transplant patient. The error was noticed after the patient had received a new kidney of the wrong blood group.
- Tropical disease hits Darwin
- One person has died and three more are in intensive care in a Darwin hospital after contracting the tropical disease melioidosis.
- Seawater spray cures kids colds-Czech researchers
- For parents worried about how to treat children's colds now that some medicines have been called into question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.
- Molecular Nanobots are the world's smallest robots
- While many in the nanotech establishment dismiss molecular nanobots as science fiction many of the recent breakthroughs in nanobiotech point to the emergence of hybrid biomechanical nanomachines
- Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
- The globalization of this Westernized industrial model of poultry production has not only facilitated the spread of deadly viruses like H5N1, but also plays a role in their emergence in the first place.
- Deadly Meal..
- However, there are some food out there, though commonly eaten by us, contains toxic that may cause harm when it's not prepared properly.
- High risk of heart attack in winters
- The time period ranging from December 25 to January 25 is the most dangerous period as far as heart attacks are concerned, the study by a group of the capital's leading doctors revealed.
- Bootstrapper » 102 Ways to Slow Down Aging
- Here are a few tips to help keep you healthy as you age.
- A Drug to End Drug Addiction
- Researchers in labs around the world are now developing vaccines (not a pill, but an injection) to inoculate people against dangerously addictive substances such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
- Does Your Pet Seem Almost Human? It May Be A Clever Response...
- New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Business News
- The three business models that make Twitter a billion-dollar...
- When Twitter gets to scale here are the very obvious, and wildly lucrative, business models:
- 10 Ways Lazy Stupid Coworkers Can Help Boost Your Career
- Lazy coworkers may seem like a nuisance, but in reality, they offer a number of excellent opportunities to improve your professional life.
- Samsung unveils 31-inch organic screen
- Samsung ...said on Thursday it had developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating worldwide race for organic displays.
- Is Sears Engaging in Criminal Hacking Behavior?
- "Join "My SHC Community" on Sears.com, and the company will install some pretty impressive spyware on your computer:..."
- Big bucks in shaggy dog story
- In a country whose residents spare no expense on their pets, self-service dog washes represent another splurge,
- Recession in the US 'has arrived'
- The feared recession in the US economy has already arrived, according to a report from Merrill Lynch.
- Maximum impact restaurant greening
- In the US, restaurants are the top electricity consumer among retail businesses. 33% of it. Each restaurant produces an average of 50,000 pounds of waste.
- Advertising: Think Before You Speak
- Just as your funny bumper sticker might offend the guy behind you, your ad may not be saying what you want the target audience to hear
- What's Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008
- There are some big trends I'm really excited about for the web in 2008.
- Brewing Battle: Starbucks vs. McDonald's
- ...McDonald's is planning to capitalize on the public's willingness to pay $4 for a cup of coffee by hiring baristas and dropping espresso machines in 14,000 of their fast-food outlets.
- JPMorgan Predicts 2008 Will Be “Nothing But Net”
- JPMorgan’s Internet analyst Imran Khan and his team released a massive 312-page report this morning titled Nothing But Net that paints a bullish picture for the major Internet stocks ...Some key takeaways:
- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
- ...you've just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad ...
- Third Reich to Fortune 500
- Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us
- User registration pages suck
- you must relentlessly streamline the process by which a user joins your site and avoid even this process as long as possible.
- How we work
- We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Humorous
- Gibbon with a death wish Video
- This gibbon found himself who to play with
- CraigsList Cement Blocks Picture
- a very 'colorful' ad
- MacBook Air (Parody) video
- Why should you buy the new MacBook Air? Why the hell not?
- Marine Corps Jokes
- The ultimate response to a Dear John letter...
- The 6 Most Unsettling Medication Side Effects
- Behold, six side effects that would suck for anyone unlucky enough to experience them, while being indisputably awesome for any onlooker with a video camera and a YouTube account.
- You’ve Been Misinformed
- Comic book insight into male-female relationships
- Top 20 Ways to Make a Woman Lose Interest
- "I know, it’s too hard to tell her your relationship has ended (after all, whoever of us can stand women crying?), the best thing you can do is make her lose interest, so she’ll break up with you."
- Watch out! The boyfriend pillow!
- Guys. Warning. Apparently, we're all being replaced.
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Time-Space Paradoxes
- Woman spotted yesterday reading today's newspaper. Nice use of Photoshop to create a recursive paradox and a self-fulfilling prophecy at the same time.
- Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms
- A reader sent me this list of atheist-positive anecdotes that have been seen either on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt. Of course, they are accurate as well as hilarious.
- The 'Kittens! '
- So there I was . .. . just relaxing in front of the T.V. When the kids yelled, “Hey Mom! Come see the kittens.”
- Best Things to Receive After Midnight
- Some stuff is just better when it comes in the middle of the night. And some things only come in the middle of the night. These are the best things received after midnight:
- Do's and don'ts with babies
- Illustrations of how, and especially how NOT, to raise the baby
- Inflatable Car Capsule
- What do you do with a car that probably doesn't have a custom cover? ...the car capsule — a ridiculously ridiculous snow globe sans snow for your car.
- Amy at the Club
- Amy's not great at making friends.
- Just relaxin' in the pool
- Don't try this at home!
- Top Ten Thoughts For 2008
- Top Ten Thoughts For 2008
- Funny Weddings
- Relax, take a deep breath, and turn your mind to the humorous tales that follow...
Environment
- Massive volcano exploded under Antarctic icesheet, study finds
- A powerful volcano erupted under the icesheet of West Antarctica around 2,000 years ago and it might still be active today, a finding that prompts questions about ice loss from the white continent
- Sweden to Study Belching Cows
- A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
- Did Puxnutawney Phil Predict Global Warming?
- Punxsutawney Phil may be smarter than we've given him credit for. In addition to checking out his shadow to forecast the end of winter, he has been ahead of the curve in predicting global warming.
- Huge grotto found under Norwegian glacier
- Large quantities of water from melting ice have created what researchers are calling a "sensational" grotto under one of Norway's major glaciers.
- Brown bears back on the prowl in unusually mild Finnish weather
- Unusually mild and wet January weather has caused hibernating brown bears in Finland to wake up prematurely...
- Ocean floor sensors will warn of failing Gulf Stream
- An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors are to be deployed across the Atlantic, from Florida to the Canary Islands, to provide early warning that the Gulf Stream might be failing, an event that would trigger cataclysmic freezing in Britain for decades.
- Water released to save river red gums
- More than four gigalitres of water will be released down the Murray River to protect significant 200-year-old river red gums and wetland areas hit by the drought.
- Winter Bike Commuting -- 10 Tips to Ride Safe
- New cycling equipment, better apparel and a growing awareness of the feasibility of wintertime riding has caused a jump in participation.
- : Shetland Times Online News Feature
- Shetland was once a paradise for sea trout anglers, but today there are very few to be found. In the second of a short series of articles, Paul Bloomer explores the reasons for the massive decline in Shetland's sea trout population.
- My Less than Usual Top Five (plus one) Reasons to be...
- My reasons for being a vegetarian are not quite the usual ones, I think.
- CBC.ca - Video
- Who killed the electric car -- again?
- EU targets could force Britain to build thousands of...
- The British coastline is set for a dramatic increase in wind farms and tidal energy plants as the Government strives to meet a European target for renewable energy.
- Your Favorite Sweet Can Save the World
- As you may already know, chocolate is good for your heart. And it's definitely good for your soul. Now, thanks to a team of researchers and farmers in Brazil, it turns out that chocolate could be good for the planet, too.
- Inside Chernobyl, The Long Shadow of Chernobyl
- Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded, blanketing thousands of square miles with radiation, the catastrophe isn't over.
- Pets
- ...veterinarian Chris Thurgood said forecasts of frequent 40 degree days would gradually deplete local stocks of short-nosed dogs and cats, which typically suffer from respiratory problems and heat stress.
- Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter
- Everything's big in Texas — big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state's big carbon footprint, too.
- Brazil Amazon deforestation soars
- The Brazilian government has announced a huge rise in the rate of Amazon deforestation, months after celebrating its success in achieving a reduction.
- Biofuels 'do more harm than good'
- Biofuels have been hailed as a green alternative to oil by some, but in the US, where there are massive plants converting maize (corn), it has been criticised for making food more expensive and being environmentally unfriendly.
- Mont. high school cancels climate speech
- A climate scientist's speech to high school students was canceled because members of the rural community were concerned the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's message on climate change would be "anti-agriculture
- Exploration Of Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctica's Ice Sheet Begins
- A four-man science team led by British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Dr Andy Smith has begun exploring an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. The lake -- the size of Lake Windermere (UK) -- could yield vital clues to life on Earth, climate change and future sea-level rise.
- Oil Spills, Saving Animals, Protecting the Seas
- Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this article comes with illustrations from a recent oil spill in the Yellow Sea.
- A Picture is Worth…
- The picture, taken by the Press-Office City of Münster (Germany), demonstrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle. It clearly shows how sick our car fetish is.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Energy News
- Year in review: Car tech gets political
- This year saw automotive technology turn into a political hot button.
- ENN: Biofuels: Let's look before we leap
- A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.
- Energy Independence: How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit
- In 1976 the Danish public got behind an ambitious (and expensive) program to become entirely energy-independent
- EU targets could force Britain to build thousands of wind turbines
- The British coastline is set for a dramatic increase in wind farms and tidal energy plants as the Government strives to meet a European target for renewable energy.
- Wal-Mart to open stores that use less energy
- Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, said on Tuesday it will open four stores that use 25 percent less energy than its supercenters that were in operation in 2005.
- Kill A Watt EZ
- Concerned about your electricity bill? Not sure what is running your bill up? Use the Kill A Watt to let you see how much power your electronic devices are using.
- SkySail
- Illustrating how SkySail to reduce energy consumption of shipping
- GM says new fuel requirements to add $6,000 per car
- New fuel efficiency requirements imposed by Congress will add, on average, $6,000 to the price of GM vehicles sold in the United States, the automaker's vice chairman and product chief said
- Affordable Hybrid SUV Please
- raise your hand if you’d like to see a more affordable hybrid suv option.
- The Solar Powered Myth
- "...there are some very common misconceptions about solar power (and wind power)"
- How To: Get 100 Gallons Of Heating Oil For Free
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to give you 100 gallons of free heating oil to help survive the cold cruel capitalist winter. The hogshead of liquid warmth is available to anyone enduring a financial hardship who fills out a handy online form.
- Gasoline theft is on the rise
- The price of gas isn't the only thing on the rise as the number of gas thefts has also risen.
- Nanosolar’s Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal
- They [Nanosolar] have successfully created a solar coating that is the most cost-efficient solar energy source ever. ...This makes, for the first time in history, solar power cheaper than burning coal.
- Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2
- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or gasoline. The Sunlight to Petrol, or S2P, project essentially reverses the combustion process, recovering the building blocks of hydrocarbons.
- Biofuels 'do more harm than good'
- Biofuels have been hailed as a green alternative to oil by some, but in the US, where there are massive plants converting maize (corn), it has been criticised for making food more expensive and being environmentally unfriendly.
- The hard truth about ethanol
- The only economical way to make ethanol right now is with corn, which means the burgeoning industry is literally eating away at America's food supply. And most analysts conclude its environmental benefits are questionable.
- Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency?
- Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate of more than 60 percent. Considering that the best solar energy systems today have an efficiency of 30-40 percent, Johnson´s method could cut the cost of solar energy nearly in half.
- Fuel Savings - Making the Best of What You Have Today
- "..one man has taken his gas-guzzling SUV - and rather than trading it on a Prius, has instead tried to make the best use of what he has -- with amazing results
- Road Energy System Siphons Heat From Parking Lots
- ...a Dutch company is siphoning the heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.
- UK seen giving green light to new nuclear plants | Environment | Reuters
- The UK public is divided on the issue, with 44 percent saying companies should have the option of investing in new nuclear and 37 percent disagreeing.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Animal News and Pictures
- Amazing pictures of the cheetah cubs who developed a...
- This extraordinary series of photographs ...show a female cheetah demonstrating to her young the first rules of survival in the wild - how to hunt and kill. (but there's more)
- eagle wallpapers
- Page one of Eagle Pictures wallpapers
- Mauling survivor said he yelled at tiger
- One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim's father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger's exhibit...
- Did Puxnutawney Phil Predict Global Warming?
- Punxsutawney Phil may be smarter than we've given him credit for. In addition to checking out his shadow to forecast the end of winter, he has been ahead of the curve in predicting global warming.
- Does Your Pet Seem Almost Human? It May Be A Clever Response To Loneliness
- New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
- Female inmates work with dogs for the disabled
- Female inmates will serve as full time trainers and will be paired with a puppy which they will work with 24 hours a day for at least a year.
- Brown bears back on the prowl in unusually mild Finnish weather
- Unusually mild and wet January weather has caused hibernating brown bears in Finland to wake up prematurely...
- Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs?
- "The largest of the land animals, the dinosaurs, would have been locked in a life-or-death struggle with [insects] for survival."
- Germany's Polar Bear Cub Quandary
- ...the country's tabloid press agonized over the deaths of two tiny Eisbär cubs in a Nuremberg zoo, who were presumably eaten by their inexperienced mother, Vilma, after zookeepers decided not to intervene.
- Minoru Morimoto: What gives you the right to lecture us about whaling? - 22 Jan 2008 - Opinion, Editorial and reader comments from New Zealand and around the World
- As a result of Japan's research programme, we now know more about the status of whale stocks and whale biology than at any time in history and this knowledge increases each year.
- The Sea Lions Huge Yawn
- It's hard work being a sea lion!!!
- Greenpeace harassing whaling fleet
- Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat are trying to stop the Japanese whaling factory ship from refuelling in Antarctic waters, the environment group says.
- Mr. Cat: Cat Wallpaper #30
- Two white friends
- M.D. Anderson's cancer fight turns to toxic toad venom
- A Houston hospital known for seeking the most advanced cancer therapies that modern science can develop is turning its attention to a centuries-old Chinese treatment: toad venom.
- The Top Dog Breeds of 2007 - AKC's Most Popular Dog Breeds of the Year
- At the start of every year, the American Kennel Club tallies up the registrations for the previous year, and gives us a list of the top ten registered dog breeds in the United States.
- Do Monkeys Pay for Sex?
- In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates "paid" for sexual access to females — and that the going rate for such access dwindled as the number of available females went up.
- Platypus swam with the dinosaurs
- Fossil jaws from an ancient platypus found in Victoria have revealed the Australian mammal group is tens of millions of years older than previously thought.
- Sweden to Study Belching Cows
- A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
- Pets
- ...veterinarian Chris Thurgood said forecasts of frequent 40 degree days would gradually deplete local stocks of short-nosed dogs and cats, which typically suffer from respiratory problems and heat stress.
- Butterfly on Flower
- Spring, flowers, butterfly -- This looks like it’s a Male Speyeria callippe callippe Butterfly. It was seen near Little Crater Lake...
- Pictures of the Week
- I came across a wonderfully amusing image of two doe mule deer in the deep snow of the Gunnison Basin east of Gunnison, Colo
- 'Raining Dead Birds,' Resident Says
- Experts say they believe they have identified why dozens of birds have been mysteriously dropping from the sky and dying in yards of west Phoenix residents.
- Black Cat
- Sneaky Black Cat picture
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Offbeat News
- A toilet for two; now you can spend quality time with your loved one
- Enter, the toilet for two.
- Bill Clinton ‘has a dream’, falls asleep during MLK speech
- The campaign is taking its toll on former US president Bill Clinton. He fell asleep yesterday during a ceremony to honour Martin Luther King Jr at a church in New York.
- Man Catches Piles of Fish using a Torch Video
- These guys use flashlights to attract fish and end up getting attacked by flying fish!
- Top 10 Candy Urban Legends!!!
- Countdown of the Top 10 Candy Urban Legends
- Sweden to Study Belching Cows
- A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
- World's 1st All-Glass Undersea Restaurant
- Sitting five meters (16 feet) below the waves of the Indian Ocean, the Ithaa Undersea Restaurant is surrounded by a vibrant coral reef and encased in clear acrylic offering diners 270-degrees of panoramic underwater views.
- Mr Potato Head makes octopus pal
- A giant Pacific octopus living in a Cornish aquarium has formed an unlikely bond with a child's plastic toy.
- 4 Steps To Pick Up Women Like a Genius
- Step by step here’s how he did it.
- The Astonishing History of Vibrators
- The history of vibrators is a strange tale that provides insights into both the history of sex toys, and cultural notions about women's sexuality
- Vidoes: Shank Found Inside Mattel Polly Pocket Toy
- A "shank" (a blade wrapped in electrical tape, to be exact) was found inside a sealed Polly Pocket toy purchased at Walmart.
- PETA Requests Vegetarian Diet in Jail for Cannibalism Suspect
- Sheriff's officials were astounded Thursday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being "involved in any senseless killing" while incarcerated.
- Bodies Fall Out of Sky As Planes Collide
- 'There Were Bodies Falling Out of the Sky' -- at Least 5 Dead As Planes Collide Over California
- Don't send in the clowns
- "We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable."
- FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
- Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
- Sleeping Australian run over by train and lives
- A drunken Australian man who took a nap between railway tracks has had a miraculous escape after he was run over by a freight train and received only minor injuries and a bump on the head.
- Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network
- A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz into his own personal train set, triggering chaos and derailing four vehicles in the process. Twelve people were injured in one of the incidents.
- The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa Mystery
- The truth: No one knows for sure exactly how these rocks move - although a few people have come up with some pretty good explanations. The reason why their movement remains a mystery: No one has ever seen them in motion!
- Unknowing twins marry each other
- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said.
- 'Fallen' tree of logs
- Somebody's been busy with that ax.
- 10 Things You Did Not Know You Could Buy On Amazon
- no kidding...
- Hospital wrongly records blood group of kidney transplant patient : Health
- The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust has come under the scanner after staff wrongly recorded the blood group of a kidney transplant patient. The error was noticed after the patient had received a new kidney of the wrong blood group.
- Surgeons 'are better after playing Nintendo Wii'
- Trainee surgeons will soon be practicing operations from the comfort of their sofas after a study found they performed better after playing games on the Nintendo Wii.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Entertainment News and Views
- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
- ...you've just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad ...
- The 20 Most Anticipated Films of 2008
- "...I have decided to make my big 2008 preview list with 20 films, just to add a little spice to your life."
- Simpsons obsession.- Kwik e mart!
- More than three dozen pictures
- 'Idol' Stars for Real, or Just Reality TV?
- The last six months have made clear that not all who grace the "Idol" stage go on to find fame and fortune.
- The Best Of Magic: Lance Burton
- Lance Burton with his famous dove act + some good card manipulations
- Web Playgrounds of the Very Young
- ...entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for children.
- How Pirates Will Change The Entertainment Industry
- The time has come to address piracy with some real, sustainable solutions that consumers will support.
- 8 Things the ''Cloverfield'' Monster Won't Be
- We don't want to know what the monster is until it pops up on the silver screen, but we thought we'd do the world a favor and present our spoiler-free list of 8 things we know the monster won't be.
- MeeMix Opens Beta To Public, Has Much Work Ahead
- Tel Aviv, Israel based MeeMix...is kicking-off the New Year by moving their taste-predicting Internet radio service from closed to open Beta.
- Critics' Picks: Favorite Books of 2007
- These are the books that are disappointing only because they have to end. They’re the ones we mention to friends. They’re the ones worth taking on vacation, and they are well executed, whatever their genre or subject matter.
- Study Finds $50 Lottery Game Most Popular In Middle-Income Areas
- The Texas Lottery sells the most tickets for its $50 scratch-off game in middle-income neighborhoods and not in the affluent areas originally touted as the game's target.
- 11 Most Creative Advertisements
- "Hi guys, I have a real treat for you today. I have compiled, what are in my opinion, the 11 most creative advertisements."
- 8 Kids Movies That Lied to Us
- ...we say no more! Below, eight movies that are begging to be unmasked for the dangerously optimistic propaganda they really are.
- 8 really fun paper and pencil Math games
- They use paper and pencil, are free, are easy to learn, and teach logical thinking and strategy that involves looking ahead. They’re great fun and they can usually be played by young and old alike.
- Study: Ads in online shows work better than ads on TV
- Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both advertising and content when they watch online.
- Has Video Killed Old Television Habits?
- Making headlines today is Nielsen Online, the Internet measurement firm, reported some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.The study finds that the audience to sites such as YouTube has nearly doubled in the last year.
- Animal Games for Kids
- Animal Games for Kids
- 'Idol' back as TV's most popular series
- Fox's ''American Idol'' returned as the nation's most popular TV series, but with 4 million fewer viewers than the 2007 season premiere.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Animals
- Mr Potato Head makes octopus pal
- A giant Pacific octopus living in a Cornish aquarium has formed an unlikely bond with a child's plastic toy.
- 480-million-year-old Fossil Sheds Light On 150-year-old...
- Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal's soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs
- What dogs can teach you about life
- Dogs are man’s best friend, but are they much more than that? Are they man’s best teacher? There are many subtle things that dog’s can teach us about life.
- Dolphin Play Bubble Rings
- How do they do this?
- Scientists Prove that Squirrels are Sneaky
- The study found that squirrels are far more likely to make fake holes when they know they’re being watched by other squirrels. To the researchers, this suggests that the squirrels are aware of other squirrels intention to steal.
- Tiger
- Schonbrunn Zoo, Wien.
- Cute Seal
- Cute Seal looking up through ice hole.
- So I'm a snail and I need to cross the bridge... hmm...
- So I'm a snail and I need to cross the bridge... hmm what should I do?
- things that make you go aahh
- Adorable animal pictures
- This is one mean dog
- Pictured ...is a Caucasian Shepherd Dog. These dogs are popular in Russia and other countries with a need to protect livestock and property. This is truly an amazing animal, he looks more like a small bear than a dog!
- Dog retrieves his best friend - a cat buried in the garden
- A pet dog missed the family’s dead cat so much that he dug up his grave and brought the body back into the house.
- The World’s 5 Most Venomous Species
- There are hundreds of animals that could kill you.
- Bulldog is back on list of Top 10 most popular dogs
- For the first time in 72 years, the bulldog has muscled its way back into the Top 10 most popular breeds in the nation, coming in 10th last year. The No. 1 dog remained the Labrador retriever, for the 17th consecutive year.
- The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World
- For every one of us, there are 1.5 billion bugs. But some of them are so horrifying, just one is too many. Here are five you want to avoid at all costs.
- Pet Rules
- To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - nose height.
- Blame It On The Voices: Birds vs. Vortex
- Birds vs. Vortex
- Audubon Zoo Desktop Wallpaper
- We took hundreds of photos that day, several of which have been rotating through my collection of desktop wallpapers. You are welcome to them.
- Wallpaper Puppy
- Cute blond puppy wallpaper
- Oil Spills, Saving Animals, Protecting the Seas
- Since a picture is worth a thousand words, this article comes with illustrations from a recent oil spill in the Yellow Sea.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Science and Tech
- Rice researchers make a dark discovery
- A scientist at Rice University has created the darkest material known to man, a carpet of carbon nanotubes that reflects only 0.045 percent of all light shined upon it. That's four times darker than the previously darkest known substance, and more than 100 times darker than the paint on a black Corvette.
- BeatBearing project weds ball bearings, elegance to make jams
- As with most musical things, this truly is better appreciated through video, so do yourself a favor and click on through to see it in action.
- The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science
- "The Algorithm's coming-of-age as the new language of science promises to be the most disruptive scientific development since quantum mechanics."
- Growing New Hearts from Old
- In experiments performed on rats and pigs, the researchers stripped donor hearts of their cells to create scaffolds on which the recipients' cells were grown.
- Virtual Cable Car Navigation - Safe, Simple and Intuitive
- Virtual Cable is a unique display for a car navigation system. The driver sees the Virtual Cable™ image through the windshield.
- Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie
- Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
- New Study May Have Found a Way to Reverse Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes
- An amazing new study, published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, has documented improvement in the brain of a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease within minutes of administrating a therapeutic molecule.
- 5min - What are gravitational waves - Video
- What are gravitational waves
- Cool Water Experiment Video
- This is an experiment with hot water that makes clouds. Cool music and sweet slow motion effects!
- 10-Fold Life Span Extension Reported
- Biologists have created baker's yeast capable of living to 800 in yeast years without apparent side effects.
- Is the Right Side of the Bed the Wrong One?
- Following a “hot debate” by a sleep scientist, a Feng Shui expert, and a motivational speaker, the final conclusion to the bedside conundrum was that left was right, and right was wrong.
- Destruction: $70,000 Industrial Robot Modded to Fire Flameballs
- There's only one thing better than robots that can destruct things: robots that can destruct things and terrify people by firing flameballs, bowling balls, watermelons and bloody pig entrails at high speed.
- 480-million-year-old Fossil Sheds Light On 150-year-old Paleontological Mystery
- Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal's soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs
- LightPoints from Schott
- This is a shiny design idea that brings together new technologies and materials in creating a miniature spectacle of light. But as you will see in the pictures below, it's a concept that may be applied at a large scale also.
- Super-wine might boost lifespan
- Would you drink wine made from genetically engineered grapes if it had extra benefits?
- Solar Cells with 60% Efficiency?
- Nuclear Engineer Lonnie Johnson, best known for his invention of the super soaker squirt gun, has recently designed a new type of solar energy technology that he says can achieve a conversion efficiency rate of more than 60 percent. Considering that the best solar energy systems today have an efficiency of 30-40 percent, Johnson´s method could cut the cost of solar energy nearly in half.
- State of US science report shows disturbing trends; challenges
- US schools continue to lag behind internationally in science and math education. On the other hand, the US is the largest, single, R&D-performing nation in the world
- Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data
- Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.
- Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study
- An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer's disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
- Hopes of custom-built organs as scientists create beating heart
- Scientists have created a beating heart in the laboratory in a breakthrough that could allow doctors one day to make a range of organs for transplant almost from scratch.
- Monitor your gadgets energy usage with the Saverclip
- The Saverclip is a gadget shapoed like a tie pin that reads electric usage on any power cable it's clipped onto.
- UK OKs human-animal embryo research
- British authorities ...approved scientists' use of animal eggs to create human stem cells, a ruling that will boost the supply of stem cells for research.
- Charge Your Cellphone Just By Moving
- Well, for those of you who hate the pain of cell-phone charging, there is now a promising new technology that could get rid of the messy problem of cellphone chargers once and for all, AND eliminate 30 to 40 percent of the toxic heavy metals that are currently found in cell-phone batteries.
- Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2
- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or gasoline. The Sunlight to Petrol, or S2P, project essentially reverses the combustion process, recovering the building blocks of hydrocarbons.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Society Culture
- Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie
- Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
- Good health and good fortune - why men find a leggy lady lovelier
- When it comes to snaring the perfect man, the solution could be as simple as slipping on a pair of high heels.
- Texas Is Biggest Carbon Polluter
- Everything's big in Texas -- big pickup trucks, big SUVs and the state's big carbon footprint, too.
- Mont. high school cancels climate speech
- A climate scientist's speech to high school students was canceled because members of the rural community were concerned the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's message on climate change would be "anti-agriculture
- What Do You Get The Last Guy On Earth For His Birthday?
- With this little wonder you can cut down a tree, shoot an arrow at a deer, skin that deer, tell time, and estimate distance, as well as single-handedly rebuild a just and noble human civilization.*
- Advertising: Think Before You Speak
- Just as your funny bumper sticker might offend the guy behind you, your ad may not be saying what you want the target audience to hear
- The Good Wife's Guide Revised
- 1955 Good Wife Guide and updated version
- Talking to Strangers
- I think "don't talk to strangers" is just about the worst possible advice you can give a child. Most people are friendly and helpful, and if a child is in distress, asking the help of a stranger is probably the best possible thing he can do.
- Judge: Stop Handing Out Bibles In School
- A rural Missouri school district's long-standing practice of allowing the distribution of Bibles to grade school students is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.
- One Red Paperclip
- A man wanted to trade a paperclip for a house. It took him a year, but he did it.
- Stress...
- Westerners and Americans in particular, keep complaining that their lives are so stressful...
- UK OKs human-animal embryo research
- British authorities ...approved scientists' use of animal eggs to create human stem cells, a ruling that will boost the supply of stem cells for research.
- Now You Can Get Tased for Common Courtesy?
- ...in this day and age, don't be surprised if a bit of common courtesy confuses the heck out of people.
- Researchers plunder social networks
- ...they are being monitored by researchers, who are almost overwhelmed by the amount of data they can gather about tastes, preferences and relationships.
- 8 Kids Movies That Lied to Us
- ...we say no more! Below, eight movies that are begging to be unmasked for the dangerously optimistic propaganda they really are.
- The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know
- This article is a follow up on Ten Yiddish Expressions You Should Know.
- Bill Proposes Database of Offenders to Aid Dating
- Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, the San Francisco Democrat who is the majority whip, introduced a bill last week to create an online database of men and women convicted of domestic violence in California.
- Small house on wheels
- Jay’s home is a 100 square-foot cottage that includes a desk and sitting area, a kitchen, a bathroom, a sleeping loft, and a front porch. Jay’s house is also mounted on wheels
- Brenda Norrell: Apaches rise to defend homelands from Homeland Security
- Apache land owners on the Rio Grande told Homeland Security to halt the seizure of their lands for the US/Mexico border wall, during a national media conference call Monday. It was the same day that a 30-day notice from Homeland Security expired with the threat of land seizures by eminent domain to build the US/Mexico border wall.
- How I Taught My Preschooler the Value of a Dollar
- What began as a way to motivate Sam to stop throwing temper tantrums turned into an exercise where he learned that he must work hard to afford expensive things.
- Harold Bloom: 'What We Are Seeing Is the Fall of America'
- The long-time cultural critic warns that the war in Iraq is destroying the American empire.
- Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
- Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife’s Breasts Before Throwing You in a Cell at the Airport and Then Lying About Why We Put You There?
- Top Fifty Atheist T-Shirt and Bumper Sticker Aphorisms
- A reader sent me this list of atheist-positive anecdotes that have been seen either on a bumper sticker or a t-shirt. Of course, they are accurate as well as hilarious.
- The "Google generation" not so hot at Googling, after all
- ...are teens better with technology than older adults? Perhaps, but they also "tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many imagine."
- Food Challenges for the Super Hungry, Super Competitive or Super Cheap
- ...below are a few places where you can get your meal for free – if you’re up to the challenge of horking down ten percent of your body weight in half an hour.
- 10 Ways Lazy Stupid Coworkers Can Help Boost Your Career
- Lazy coworkers may seem like a nuisance, but in reality, they offer a number of excellent opportunities to improve your professional life.
- Old World Trade Center Ads
- Foreboding ads featuring the World Trade Center
Friday, January 18, 2008
Home
- The Good Wife's Guide Revised
- 1955 Good Wife Guide and updated version
- More Creative Furniture for Cramped Urban Living: 20...
- Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard. In addition to being clever and simply aesthetically awesome, flat pack furniture is also eco-friendly and highly creative.
- 10 Easy Ways for Going Green in the Kitchen
- Save time, money and resources in food preparation and storage
- Bet You Didn't Know This Is How A Sewing Machine Works
- Simple graphic dispells mystery of How A Sewing Machine Works
- Light Emitting Wallpaper
- The light emitting wallpaper is exactly what its names suggests. The interesting thing about it is that when it's not turned [on], it seems to be just a normal wallpaper.
- The Minimalist's Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy
- Here are my favorite tips for beating clutter entropy, for the minimalists among you.
- Kitchen Timesavers That Speed Up Dinner
- Putting together a great meal has a lot more to do with Getting Things Done than Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
- Craftster.org - Best of 2007
- “the best” [craft] projects of 2007
- Red, White or Green?
- Wine enthusiasts love to discuss the aromas of wine — the raspberries, the leather, the fresh-cut grass — but are we ignoring a prevailing whiff of petroleum? With some wines emitting three times their weight in greenhouse gas, the answer is yes.
- Alternative Cleaners and Recipes
- To get a home that is truly clean, rather than covered in toxic chemicals, try making your own non-toxic cleaners at home.
- Cold-Fighting Foods
- chicken soup isn't the only food that might help. Here's a daily menu based on experts' recommendations.
- LightPoints from Schott
- This is a shiny design idea that brings together new technologies and materials in creating a miniature spectacle of light. But as you will see in the pictures below, it's a concept that may be applied at a large scale also.
- 20 Super Brain Foods
- The foods listed below can help you: concentrate, increase memory, tune sensorimotor skills, keep you motivated, speed up your reaction time, control stress, and even slow down the aging of brain cells!
- Amazing Facts About Chocolate
- Here are 10 interesting facts about chocolate:
- Houses With a View
- Eleven amazing pictures of umm errr... Houses With a View
- Consumer Reports' 10 Ways to be Ripped Off
- According to Consumer Reports latest mailing that I received, here are some items that rip off your money.
- What's on the plate for 2008?
- Eight food trends we're hungry for this year
- These are a few of my favorite things
- Best of the year covering wines, spirits and brews from around the world.
- The unplugged lightbulb
- Interesting light bulb design
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Videos
- Gibbon with a death wish Video
- This gibbon found himself who to play with
- India traffic cam
- Eerily graceful Indian traffic merging
- YouTube rivals: online video shoot out
- PC World Top 10 Video Sharing Sites
- The Best Of Magic: Lance Burton
- Lance Burton with his famous dove act + some good card manipulations
- Funny cat clips
- Video slide show of funny cat pictures
- Girl vs Handgun
- Thank goodness she stuck that tongue back in her mouth or she'd have bit it off.
- How To Track An Email - Video
- This video talks about how to track an email so that you can find out which city the email was sent from.
- Who On Earth Built This?
- These massive arc-shaped features are located at the Geographical Center of four continents. Did humans build them?
- How To Identifying A Song It 'hears' Through The Computer. Video
- Love that song but don't know what it is ? Here is a simple way to identifying a song it 'hears' through my computer.
- Talking Cat Siamese
- Talking cat. Alaska being cheeky!
- Clever Beer Adverts
- Here are some clever and innovative advertisements that make me want to black out.
- Incredible Building In Paris ! Video
- Was the designer drunk, or does it just look that way?
- 737 Emergency Landing
- Controversial commercial featuring the Mediterranean Sea, the beach, and a Boeing 737... crash landing.
- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
- ...you've just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad ...
- How They Tow Cars In Japan - Video
- Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds
- Steve Jobs Macworld 2008 Keynote in 60 Seconds
- Sneaky Trick for Accessing the Web
- "If you ever find that you're using a computer where internet use is disabled, here's a trick to access a hidden browser on windows."
- Meet the Disintegrator: 24 barrels of rubber band minigun madness
- You've gotta admire folks who bring their trade to a whole new level, even if that does mean escalating the international arms race between builders of automated, wooden, rubber band miniguns.
- Amy at the Club
- Amy's not great at making friends.
- Baby trained to give evil eye
- Parents have trained baby to "give 'em the evil look" on command.
- Snow Plowing Train
- This train plows through the snow like a champ. Dont you wish you had one of these for your driveway?
- 25 UC Berkeley Courses Available via Free Video
- Today, we want to point out that Berkeley also makes available full-fledged courses via video/webcast.
- Rx7 Four Wheels Fall Off
- Evidently the lug nuts were the wrong size and caused not one, but all 4 tires to fall off.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
How to...
- 4 Tips for Taking Great Baby Pictures - Even If You're...
- An album full of mishaps can quickly be transformed by following these 4 tips...
- How to Find Work That You Love
- Let’s break it down, starting at the end of the title and working our way back to the beginning.
- 45 Things You Can Learn Online for Free!
- Here are a great list of things you can learn online for free any time, any where there’s an Internet connection.
- How to Become a Gmail Jedi Master
- Learn to master Gmail through the use of labels, filters, keyboard shortcuts, vacation autoresponders, and the new IMAP support.
- Bet You Didn’t Know This Is How A Sewing Machine Works
- Simple graphic dispells mystery of How A Sewing Machine Works
- The Four Laws of Simplicity, and How to Apply Them to Life
- I’ve boiled it down to a simple method of Four Laws of Simplicity ...that you can use on any area of your life, and in fact on your life as a whole:
- How Can I Teach My Child to Be a Good and Happy Person?
- Probably the best way is through modeling the things you want them to learn. The second best way is through repetition of your message. But if your actions don’t match your words, children will follow your actions before they follow your words.
- How to surf the web even if Internet Explorer is disabled
- All you have to do is launch a Windows application like Calculator, and then click the Help button. ...[then]...
- The Minimalist’s Guide to Fighting (and Beating) Clutter Entropy
- Here are my favorite tips for beating clutter entropy, for the minimalists among you.
- 10 Efforts Of Men Which Women Appreciate
- Here I have gathered a few points which men can follow to attract her attention; but remember, do NOT think about applying all of these on one female. No two brains are the same.
- My Secret To Maximum Productivity
- Sometimes all it takes is a plunge towards reality to develop a strategy for staying productive.
- Ten Secrets to Being HAPPY!
- The following are my Top 10 Tips to increase happiness in your life:
- Free School of Writing for Children
- Coming Up With Story Ideas
- Tips for Preventing Colds and the Flu: Keeping the Germs Away
- 23 ways to stay healthy year-round
- 7 Essential Tips to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever
- I’d like to share some things I’ve learned about the past two (very great) years, and how you might be able to use them to make this next year your greatest year yet.
- How to Shoot Light Trails
- One of the first subjects that I remember trying to capture as a teenager with my first SLR camera (film) was light trails created by cars on a busy road near my home.
- What dogs can teach you about life
- Dogs are man’s best friend, but are they much more than that? Are they man’s best teacher? There are many subtle things that dog’s can teach us about life.
- How To: Get 100 Gallons Of Heating Oil For Free
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to give you 100 gallons of free heating oil to help survive the cold cruel capitalist winter. The hogshead of liquid warmth is available to anyone enduring a financial hardship who fills out a handy online form.
- 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic
- ...what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? here are some answers.
- How to Make a Powerfull Eye Contact
- Here are the most important tips for a powerful eye contact:
- The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources...
- As we enter 2008, let's take a look back at some of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials that helped those who toiled away on the web everyday.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Relationships News and Views
- Russian couple reunited after 60 years apart
- There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier. The last time she had seen him was three days after their wedding, when she kissed him goodbye and sent him off to rejoin his Red Army unit.
- Unknowing twins marry each other
- British twins who had been separated at birth learned they were related only after they had become husband and wife, a senior British lawmaker said.
- 10 Efforts Of Men Which Women Appreciate
- Here I have gathered a few points which men can follow to attract her attention; but remember, do NOT think about applying all of these on one female. No two brains are the same.
- Best Man Vs. Woman Explanation I've Ever Read
- ...the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play.
- You’ve Been Misinformed
- Comic book insight into male-female relationships
- Women Don't Know What A Good Man Is and When They Do Meet One, They Don't Know How To Handle Him
- "I can't understand women."
- Marine Corps Jokes
- The ultimate response to a Dear John letter...
- The Love Mattress: Modern Sleeping Solutions for Couples
- ...the idea of the Love Mattress is simple: A solid unit makes up the middle portion of the bed, with several adjoining strips of foam connected at either end. Between these slats one can drop their shoulder or arm, allowing for a much more comfortable sleeping position while remaining all snuggled up.
- MensHealth - Dating and marriage
- 41 ways to melt a woman`s heart Then you`re on your own
- Top 20 Ways to Make a Woman Lose Interest
- "I know, it’s too hard to tell her your relationship has ended (after all, whoever of us can stand women crying?), the best thing you can do is make her lose interest, so she’ll break up with you."
- Vegas Weddings Hit 10-Year Low
- The number of people tying the knot in Nevada has dropped for the fourth year in a row.
- 50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic
- Here are a list of 50 things you can do to express your love.
- 50 Things Men Wish You Knew
- Universal guy truths that all women should understand
- 41 ways to melt a women's heart
- Some interesting tips to improve your relationship. LOL…I was inspired by some of the tips.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Health News
- 7 Essential Tips to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever
- I’d like to share some things I’ve learned about the past two (very great) years, and how you might be able to use them to make this next year your greatest year yet.
- Fun Ways to Live Longer - Have Fun While Aging Healthy and Living Longer
- By understanding how these activities can help you live longer and what to do to get the most benefits, you'll be putting some fun into healthy living.
- Growing New Hearts from Old
- In experiments performed on rats and pigs, the researchers stripped donor hearts of their cells to create scaffolds on which the recipients' cells were grown.
- Consumer Reports’ 10 Ways to be Ripped Off
- According to Consumer Reports latest mailing that I received, here are some items that rip off your money.
- Would you vaccinate your child against cocaine?
- Treatment Online has an interesting piece on the development of a cocaine vaccine. Unlike other drugs that reduce the pleasurable effect of addictive drugs, this is genuinely a vaccine - it persuades the immune system to attack cocaine molecules.
- Super-wine might boost lifespan
- Would you drink wine made from genetically engineered grapes if it had extra benefits?
- My Less than Usual Top Five (plus one) Reasons to be a Vegetarian
- My reasons for being a vegetarian are not quite the usual ones, I think.
- Psychology Today: Dreams: Night School
- Dreaming is so basic to human existence, it's astonishing we don't understand it better. It consumes years of our lives, and no other single activity exerts such a powerful pull on our imaginations.
- 37 Stress Management Tips: Alternatives to Anxiety | Health | Reader's Digest
- For your emotional and bodily benefit, we've consulted experts and come up with 37 easy, natural alternatives to anxiety.
- California's medical marijuana system in 'chaos'
- California's pot shops have admittedly become an easy source of supply for people who just want to get high.
- The Ultimate Weight Loss Guide
- This is the first, last and only weight loss article you will EVER need to read. Only, this is much more than an article. This, my friends, is a guide.
- New Year's Resolutions - Dr. Weil
- Getting healthy need not be overwhelming. Here are six simple, straightforward ways to get on track toward optimum health in the new year.
- researchers find key to stopping cancer in its tracks
- Dr Chris Ward and his team used the ES cells to investigate how some tumours are able to migrate to other parts of the body, which makes the treatment of cancer much more difficult. He believes his work could lead to new treatments and stop 80-90% of cancers in their tracks.
- 10 Celebrity Health Secrets for 10 Days
- By making just one change a day – and taking a cue from celebrities – get on your way to a healthy 2008!
- Brain Exercises for the Weekend
- Harriet Vines, Ph.D., an experienced author and retired college professor, sends us a few fun brain exercises to train our attention and working memory
- Bird Flu Good news at last!
- By adding an agent that stimulates the immune system, it appears that the existing vaccine is effective against various strains of the bird flu virus.
- Universal flu jab works in people
- A single jab that could give lifelong protection against all types of flu has produced promising results in human trials.
- 20 Super Brain Foods
- The foods listed below can help you: concentrate, increase memory, tune sensorimotor skills, keep you motivated, speed up your reaction time, control stress, and even slow down the aging of brain cells!
- Tips for Preventing Colds and the Flu: Keeping the Germs Away
- 23 ways to stay healthy year-round
- Health Effects of Clutter
- “It isn’t a house problem,” he went on. “It’s a person problem. The person needs to fundamentally change their behavior.” Excessive clutter and disorganization are often symptoms of a bigger health problem.
- Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study
- An extraordinary new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer’s disease within minutes of administration of a therapeutic molecule, has just been published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
- Key To Avian Flu In Humans Discovered
- MIT researchers have uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian flu strains and aid in the development of vaccines against a deadly flu pandemic.
- Sex Your Way to Better Health
- A Dozen Reasons Why You Should Have Sex Tonight
- 10 Foolproof Tips for Better Sleep
- I didn't want to take medication and this led me to learn several tips and tricks that really helped me to overcome my insomnia.
- Healthy living 'can add 14 years'
- Taking exercise, not drinking too much alcohol, eating enough fruit and vegetables and not smoking can add up to 14 years to your life, a study says.
- The Amazing Benefits of Sleep
- ...when you stop, or pause long enough to think about sleep, and it’s many benefits, you’ll soon realize sleep is just as important to your overall health as exercise, prayer and eating the right food.
- Less Organization, Less Stress?
- The authors suggest that not only can less organization = less stress, but that it can free personal creativity.
Celebrities
- Computer Says Zeta-Jones is the Standard of Beauty
- A computer program developed by two scientists from the University of Technology in Sydney has selected actress Catherine Zeta-Jones as the ‘benchmark’ for beauty.
- The 20 Sexiest Photo Collections of 2007
- ...scandalous pictures of hot celebrities were all the rage in 2007, culminating with the following 20 photo collections.
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- Katharine McPhee wallpaper
- celebrity double take
- The World's First Rollover Blog. Simply roll your mouse over the photos to reveal the hidden, photoshopped photo.
- Lindsay Lohan 1024 x 768 wallpaper (high resolution picture)
- Lindsay Lohan wallpaper
- Sin City Cast Wallpaper
- Sin City Cast Wallpaper
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- Christina Aguilera blowing a kiss
- Will Smith angry over Hitler comment interpretation
- Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler.
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- Sweeney Todd Wallpaper
- "So I went and saw this. Too much CGI for my tastes, but it was good."
- Mother and Manager Lynne Spears "Sees Her Girls as a Piggy Bank"
- As the shock of Jamie Lynn Spears' teen pregnancy dissipates, questions of responsibility and blame have landed on her mother and manager, Lynne.
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Society Culture News
- LSSU issues annual list of words to be banished
- The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University are giving back to English speakers everywhere with their 33rd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.
- What Life Was Like in 1500
- The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:
- Study Shows Huge Gap Between Rents and House Prices
- A new study by former and current Federal Reserve economists tracked rents and home prices back to 1960 and found the current rent-price ratio is well below its long-term average. The economists suggest house prices will need to fall considerably over the next five years to be in line with rents.
- New Poll Shows Many Teens Believe Lying, Violence and Cheating Are Acceptable Behaviors
- A significant percentage of teenagers who are confident in their ability to make ethical decisions regard dishonest and even violent behavior as necessary for success, according to the fifth annual Junior Achievement/Deloitte Teen Ethics Survey
- Top 20 'Whitest' and 'Blackest' Names
- Studies of resumes have found that people with black-sounding names are less likely to get callbacks.
- graffiti street art posters stickers stencils
- Creative graffiti
- The Waking Up Syndrome
- Few of us are eager to contemplate, let alone truly face, these looming changes. ...as the edges of our familiar reality begin to ravel, more and more people are reacting psychologically. A noticeable pattern of behavior is emerging. We call this pattern the Waking Up Syndrome, and it unfolds in six stages...
- What’s Your Consumption Factor?
- The average rates at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and greenhouse gases, are about 32 times higher in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia than they are in the developing world.
- Seven Things You Must Do to Prepare for An Emergency
- If you want to succeed at any venture, the first step is to have a plan. Here are some steps we are taking to be prepared:
- Hey, you. You're on jury duty
- Faced with a shrunken jury pool, a judge resorted to some sidewalk justice in hopes of filling it out. It worked.
- Top 10 Things Americans Want but Can't Have
- 10 Things Americans Want but Can't Have
- Texas Man Freed After 26 Years in Prison
- Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was a rapist. His steadfastness was vindicated Thursday, when a judge released him because of new DNA evidence showing he indeed wasn't.
- 52 tips, tricks, tools and sites to help consumers fight back!
- Sick of having your complaints ignored, being ripped off and getting the short end of the stick? Here are 52 great sites, services and secrets to help shoppers, road warriors, home owners and all types of consumers.
- Has Video Killed Old Television Habits?
- Making headlines today is Nielsen Online, the Internet measurement firm, reported some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.The study finds that the audience to sites such as YouTube has nearly doubled in the last year.
- Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out
- ...I felt it worthwhile to relay a list of five items which I saw during my travels which the locals thought was perfectly normal (I presume), but which freaked the heck out of me as a Canadian.
- Tighter driver's license rules coming out
- Americans born after Dec. 1, 1964, will have to get more secure driver's licenses in the next six years under ambitious post-9/11 security rules to be unveiled Friday by federal officials.
- 2007 in Iraq
- Shocking graphic of last year in iraq
- 7 Craziest Conspiracy Theories
- Conspiracy Theories
- 'Meanest Mom' Sells Son's Car, Family Gets Quite a Ride
- Yesterday she was the meanest mom on the planet. Today: the coolest.
- Mapquest, Google scramble to add Lakota to maps (not)
- Lakota Oyate, a Native American activist group that just a couple of weeks ago declared the sovereignty of Lakota Sioux land in the north-central U.S., has issued a map outlining the newly free and independent nation of Lakota.
- Erased
- Call me a sucker for letting other companies control my data. But, probably, so are you. Welcome to the world where you don’t really own your data. Hope you never get erased.
- Giving Disorganized Boys the Tools for Success
- With girls outperforming boys these days in high school and college, educators have been sparring over whether there is a crisis in the education of boys.
- Suit alleges man fired for refusing to dress as Santa
- A Lebanon man alleges he was fired last month by the local Wal-Mart because he refused to dress up as the store's Santa Claus.
- Vegas Weddings Hit 10-Year Low
- The number of people tying the knot in Nevada has dropped for the fourth year in a row.
Offbeat News
- 18 People Stuck On Roller Coaster
- Strong winds brought a roller coaster to a halt at the top of its loop at a fun park in Anhui province in east China, leaving 18 people hanging upside down for about half an hour with six of them falling ill, an official said.
- Top 15 Amazing Coincidences
- Life is full of coincidences, some very minor, but occasionally - extraordinary. This is a list of 15 of the most incredible, unbelievable coincidences.
- As Seen on TV: The 10 Most Laughably Misleading Ads
- ...you've just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad ...
- 7 Craziest Conspiracy Theories
- Conspiracy Theories
- Teen Claims Shock At McDonald's Birth
- Employee Says She Didn't Know She Was Pregnant
- Want To Sell Your Wants?
- 2007 saw the successful launch of Wants For Sale. The innovative project by New York artist Justin Gignac and his girlfriend Christine ...The premise is simple: Justin and Christine paint pictures of things they want and then sell them for the exact price of the item.
- Interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)
- interesting Real Facts (Strange but True)
- Baby trained to give evil eye
- Parents have trained baby to "give 'em the evil look" on command.
- Zombie Food Pyramid
- Food Pyramid for Zombies
- Librarian nabs nation's coveted couch potato title
- A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature's call.
- Mouth Eyes Pictures - Strange Mouth Eyes Pics
- Advanced Photoshop Pictures Contest - 78 image entries
- Hofbrauhaus Catastrophe
- Cheers! oops...
- Who On Earth Built This?
- These massive arc-shaped features are located at the Geographical Center of four continents. Did humans build them?
- T-shirt Talk
- In Addition to the Message on Appearance Is the Message on Personality and Behavior
- What? Pakistan airlines ad
- Pakistan airlines ad, 1979, scan from the newspaper
- Real Time Death Counter Deaths per second, per minute,...
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Animals in the News
- Oh yes, cute cat pictures, avert your eyes!
- Two cute cat pictures -- "What can I say? kinda turns your stomach huh?"
- How Much Does It Cost To Keep A Dog?
- When calculating the cost of keeping your pet, you need to look at several areas.
- Baby Mammoth Could Shed Light on Warming
- Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction - and shed light on climate change, scientists said...
- Stop Dog Barking - Why Dogs Bark and How To Train Them To Stop Barking
- Your dog has a voice, just like you do, and she uses it just how you do too: to communicate something to the people she cares about.
- How to Save a Choking Cat
- Choking can be life threatening for your cat. The harder a choking cat tries to breathe, the more panicky he or she can become.
- Gibbon with a death wish Video
- This gibbon found himself who to play with
- Talking Cat Siamese
- Talking cat. Alaska being cheeky!
- Look at what my father found
- He found her [dog] in the park when he went to play soccer.
- Itchmo Reader Cat And Dog Pictures
- Annnnnd……is this what you’re calling the bottom of the totem pole? -- Cat food bowl???? No, haven’t seen it. No, not me, no way.
- Kids learn how to be compassionate toward animals
- Just a few days after a 3-month old kitten had her ears cut off and was badly beaten; some local children are learning why it's important to treat animals with respect.
- Pomeranian Pride in MA
- I am a proud Pomeranian owner! I spend most of my free time researching this breed to become an expert!
- : Shetland Times Online News Feature
- Shetland was once a paradise for sea trout anglers, but today there are very few to be found. In the second of a short series of articles, Paul Bloomer explores the reasons for the massive decline in Shetland's sea trout population.
- FCB-Franklin-what a sweetheart.
- As you can see by the photo, Franklin [the cat] enjoys SNL. Franklin might not have laughed, but I swear I saw his whiskers move up and down when an amusing skit played.
- Cute animal picture of the week
- Here is the beautiful [toy] animal that came to visit us recently. He has been here about a week. He just showed up in our kitchen one day around Christmas time.
- NPR : Scientists Probe the Mystery of Animal Lifespans
- Why do some animals live so long while others sputter out so quickly?
- The 'Kittens! '
- So there I was . .. . just relaxing in front of the T.V. When the kids yelled, “Hey Mom! Come see the kittens.”
- Funny cat clips
- Video slide show of funny cat pictures
- Another buck
- Another of my local deer, taking a moment to pose for me.
- So... WTF are you? - UADDit
- So... WTF are you?
- Wow -- A Tuxedo-less Penguin!
- An individual Adélie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae, that lacks most of its normal pigment was recently photographed by Australian biologists near Granholm Hut in Antarctica.
Internet News
- The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko
- Rich Skrenta, who created the first computer virus (Elk Cloner), co-founded the Open Directory Project, and co-founded online news site Topix, may have bitten off the biggest challenge of his career - taking on Google. In search.
- Chyrp
- Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality.
- JPMorgan Predicts 2008 Will Be “Nothing But Net”
- JPMorgan’s Internet analyst Imran Khan and his team released a massive 312-page report this morning titled Nothing But Net that paints a bullish picture for the major Internet stocks ...Some key takeaways:
- The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007
- As we enter 2008, let's take a look back at some of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials that helped those who toiled away on the web everyday.
- Slopsbox - Fight the spam
- Slopsbox is the e-mail address you give out to anyone, the e-mail address you use to register for random services that requires you to submit one.
- 50 Best Websites 2007 - TIME
- Our 2007 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Web right now.
- Hand-Drawing Style In Modern Web Design
- Let’s take a look at some excellent examples of hand-drawing style in modern web design.
- Mibbit
- Mibbit.com is the home of web chat
- Increase Online Traffic With Streaming Media
- Streaming Media is a marketing tool that deserves consideration by small business and home based business owners as a means of achieving increased on-line traffic to their website.
- 10 Sources for Free Computer Programming Courses Online
- Looking to increase your knowledge of computer programming? Here is a list of universities and other great sources that offer free computer programming courses online.
- How to surf the web even if Internet Explorer is disabled
- All you have to do is launch a Windows application like Calculator, and then click the Help button. ...[then]...
- Pew Internet: Libraries Report
- There are several major findings in this report. One is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and resources.
- 25 Web-based To-do List Solutions
- To help you minimize your to-do list mayhem, we’ve put together this list of 25 Web-based programs that feature all-in-one project and task management solutions.
- Virtual Earth Screen Saver
- Check out the Virtual Earth Screen Saver ...The screen saver reads Virtual Earth permalinks from RSS feeds and uses the Virtual Earth API to show Birdseye and satellite images
- Erased
- Call me a sucker for letting other companies control my data. But, probably, so are you. Welcome to the world where you don’t really own your data. Hope you never get erased.
- Click to download: Johnny without the cash
- In a bumper version of his regular column, Chris Salmon offers a guide to the best music you can find - for free - on the internet
- ImageFlow 0.8
- Display images on a virtual carousel.
- 45 Things You Can Learn Online for Free!
- Here are a great list of things you can learn online for free any time, any where there’s an Internet connection.
- Whats Open? What's Open? What is Open? WhatsOpen.com
- Whats Open & Where is Everyone? Helps you find what, where.
- The Web 2.0 Directory
- 10 Web 2.0 Sites Reviews
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Science and Technology News
- Science Art: When Nano-Wires Explode
- This image of "Nano-Explosions" won first prize in this year's "Science As Art" competition.
- New 3-D Technique From RabbitHoles Makes Posters Pop
- Now, a Canadian company has developed a way to print lifelike holographic posters that could make that kind of eye-catching advertising possible.
- Streaming TV with Skype
- How would you like to use your Slingbox with Skype or is it Skype with Slingbox?
- Edison Fries an Elephant to Prove His Point
- Topsy the elephant was electrocuted at Luna Park Zoo on Coney Island in 1903. Captured on film by Thomas Edison, the event was one of a string of animal electrocutions Edison staged to discredit a new form of electricity: alternating current.
- Five unbelievably cool research facilities
- otherwordly structures, massive machines, surreal technology…. some incredible beasts have been constructed in the name of research and below are 5 of the most immediately intriguing.
- Light Emitting Wallpaper
- The light emitting wallpaper is exactly what its names suggests. The interesting thing about it is that when it’s not turned [on], it seems to be just a normal wallpaper.
- Universal flu jab works in people
- A single jab that could give lifelong protection against all types of flu has produced promising results in human trials.
- Spiral Fantasy
- Amazing image from the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007
- Bird Flu Good news at last!
- By adding an agent that stimulates the immune system, it appears that the existing vaccine is effective against various strains of the bird flu virus.
- Scientists Find Good News About Methane Bubbling Up From...
- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that only one percent of this dissolved methane escapes into the air –– good news for the Earth's atmosphere.
- The first batch of new gadgets unveiled at CES
- Several gadgets made their entrance Saturday night at the Consumer Electronics Show' Unveiled press event. Here’s a rundown of some of the neat things I spotted.
- Inventor sacrifices family, savings to help world's poor
- Nunez wonders if he'd get more respect if he hailed from Silicon Valley instead of this tiny Central American nation, where he toils in obscurity at a small private university.
- Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game
- It probably doesn’t come as a huge surprise to learn that while employees in many companies sit in the cafeteria gossiping about work, or the boss, or the competition, at Google they are doing something else.
- DigitalGlobe Satellite In Operation
- Longmont-based DigitalGlobe, a provider of commercial satellite imagery, said ...that its WorldView-1 satellite is fully operational and available to customers.
- Zeitgeist: Gizmodo's Most Popular Hits of 2007
- Here are Gizmodo's Greatest Hits 2007, the most popular stories, the best of the best in a single bubblelicious list full of gadgets, juicy industry happenings, in-deep reviews, shocking tech news, weird war planes, Star Wars, boobs and sex.
- Satellite Images in Near-Real-Time (Low Resolution)
- The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily satellite images of the United States and many other parts of the Earth.
- Key To Avian Flu In Humans Discovered
- MIT researchers have uncovered a critical difference between flu viruses that infect birds and humans, a discovery that could help scientists monitor the evolution of avian flu strains and aid in the development of vaccines against a deadly flu pandemic.
- Virtual Earth Screen Saver
- Check out the Virtual Earth Screen Saver ...The screen saver reads Virtual Earth permalinks from RSS feeds and uses the Virtual Earth API to show Birdseye and satellite images
- Techland CES 2008: Previewing the future «
- there will be a lot of floor space this year once again devoted to gadgets that connect to your iPod or some other digital music player. ...Devices that connect to the Internet without the use of a computer are also making a run...
- Solar Powered AC Is Genius!
- One of the biggest Money and energy wasters finally got solar!
- The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?
- The perfect memory would be nonvolatile like flash yet provide access faster than the current generation of DRAM. Quantum dots, with their nicely tunable electronic properties, look like they may fit the bill.
- Ten Amazing Brain Facts
- What part of you is only 1% to 3% of your body’s mass, yet uses 20% of all the oxygen you breathe? Your brain! Here are ten more brain facts:
- Data shed new light on night clouds
- He thinks that the changes might be caused by human-generated global warming.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
World News
- Immigration Ground Zero
- The new ground zero in the debate over illegal immigration is Arizona, where the nation's toughest and potentially most far-reaching crackdown on undocumented workers and their employers is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1
- Tragic Last Resort For U.K.'s Asian Wives, For Some Women...
- For Some Women Who Move From India To Britain For Marriage, All Hope Is Lost
- Articles on Condoms and Safe Sex Resources, Relationship...
- One shortage that does not get as much press, however, is the condom shortage that is happening across the globe.
- Russian GPS alternative near completion, Putin and dog...
- The GPS competitor ...is now theoretically capable of providing coverage to the entire Russian territory
- Go ahead, egg my Hummer, says Russian
- A Hummer owner in Russia's second city St. Petersburg has given antiglobalists the green light to pelt his oversized vehicle with rotten eggs
- Bird Flu Good news at last!
- By adding an agent that stimulates the immune system, it appears that the existing vaccine is effective against various strains of the bird flu virus.
- And now for more good news
- Eat, drink and be merry, because in future it may be very expensive to eat and drink and there will be very little to be merry about.
- The great fall of China
- "China, it turns out, isn't a $10-trillion economy on the brink of catching up with the United States. It is a $6-trillion economy, less than half our size."
- Energy Independence: How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit
- In 1976 the Danish public got behind an ambitious (and expensive) program to become entirely energy-independent
- Akash.jpg
- Think your job's a headache; check this out...
- Inventor sacrifices family, savings to help world's poor
- Nunez wonders if he'd get more respect if he hailed from Silicon Valley instead of this tiny Central American nation, where he toils in obscurity at a small private university.
- World Outsources Pregnancies to India
- More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn more than many would make in 15 years.
- What’s Your Consumption Factor?
- The average rates at which people consume resources like oil and metals, and produce wastes like plastics and greenhouse gases, are about 32 times higher in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia than they are in the developing world.
- Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population
- Worldwide food prices have risen sharply and supplies have dropped this year, according to the latest food outlook of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The agency warned ...that the changes represent an “unforeseen and unprecedented” shift in the global food system, threatening billions with hunger and decreased access to food.
- Japanese Fears Raised As ‘Warlike UFO’ Targets Mars
- Russian Security Analysts are reported to be joining Japan’s concerns over a series of ‘mysterious’ events occurring in space which, perhaps, suggests that the planet Mars is being ‘targeted’ by an ‘unknown’ alien spacecraft that has been transiting through our Solar System ‘disguised’ as a comet.
- 78 feared killed by landslides - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com
- 61 buried while they were celebrating cleanup of a home hit earlier
- Tsunami aid 'spent on politics'
- Three years after Australians donated $400 million to rebuild Asian lives devastated by the 2004 tsunami, aid groups are under attack for spending much of the money on social and political engineering.
Monday, January 07, 2008
Society/Culture News
- Best Man Vs. Woman Explanation I've Ever Read
- ...the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play.
- Tragic Last Resort For U.K.'s Asian Wives, For Some Women Who Move From India To Britain For Marriage, All Hope Is Lost
- For Some Women Who Move From India To Britain For Marriage, All Hope Is Lost
- How we work
- We're interested in the habits, rituals and small (and occasionally big) methods people and teams use to get their work done.
- Mother and Manager Lynne Spears "Sees Her Girls as a Piggy Bank"
- As the shock of Jamie Lynn Spears' teen pregnancy dissipates, questions of responsibility and blame have landed on her mother and manager, Lynne.
- The Cost of a Long Life
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- 50 Very Simple Ways to Be Romantic
- Here are a list of 50 things you can do to express your love.
- Can Atheists Be Parents?
- In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes' right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being.
- Pew Internet: Libraries Report
- There are several major findings in this report. One is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and resources.
- Kids learn how to be compassionate toward animals
- Just a few days after a 3-month old kitten had her ears cut off and was badly beaten; some local children are learning why it's important to treat animals with respect.
- What's on the plate for 2008?
- Eight food trends we're hungry for this year
- Homeless kids are everywhere
- More than 1.3 million children are considered homeless at some point in the school year, according to the National Center for Homeless Education.
- World Outsources Pregnancies to India
- More than 50 women in this city are now pregnant with the children of couples from the United States, Taiwan, Britain and beyond. The women earn more than many would make in 15 years.
- Whats Open? What's Open? What is Open? WhatsOpen.com
- Whats Open & Where is Everyone? Helps you find what, where.
- 'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?'
- Dr. Milgram was interested in exploring the web of unwritten rules that govern behavior underground
- Third Reich to Fortune 500
- Five Popular Brands the Nazis Gave Us
- The Ultimate Weight Loss Guide
- This is the first, last and only weight loss article you will EVER need to read. Only, this is much more than an article. This, my friends, is a guide.
- Want To Sell Your Wants?
- 2007 saw the successful launch of Wants For Sale. The innovative project by New York artist Justin Gignac and his girlfriend Christine ...The premise is simple: Justin and Christine paint pictures of things they want and then sell them for the exact price of the item.
Green News
- Road Energy System Siphons Heat From Parking Lots
- ...a Dutch company is siphoning the heat from roads and parking lots to heat homes and offices.
- Kill A Watt EZ
- Concerned about your electricity bill? Not sure what is running your bill up? Use the Kill A Watt to let you see how much power your electronic devices are using.
- AA Batteries - 2 cell pack - Use Cases
- USBCELL can be used in the home, when at play or in devices you use every day:
- Many Americans aim to go green in 2008: survey
- Three-quarters of Americans, the world's largest polluters, plan to be more environmentally responsible in 2008 by reducing household energy or recycling more, a survey showed...
- Your Stuff: If It Isn't Grown, It Must Be Mined
- "In the sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing concentrations of substances extracted from the Earth's crust"
- Fuel Savings - Making the Best of What You Have Today
- "..one man has taken his gas-guzzling SUV - and rather than trading it on a Prius, has instead tried to make the best use of what he has -- with amazing results
- Recycled Jewelry from Plastic Bags
- Lovely jewelry created from recycled plastic bags and shampoo bottles combined with sliver and gold.
- Affordable Hybrid SUV Please
- raise your hand if you’d like to see a more affordable hybrid suv option.
- Top 10 eco-buildings | Environment
- Vikki Miller looks at 10 of the most innovative and sustainable buildings around the country [UK]
- Nanosolar’s Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal
- They [Nanosolar] have successfully created a solar coating that is the most cost-efficient solar energy source ever. ...This makes, for the first time in history, solar power cheaper than burning coal.
- ENN: Biofuels: Let's look before we leap
- A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.
- Accountability Central: Get Green From Green
- "There are still plenty of profitable packages under this market's tree, and exchange-traded funds specializing in environmentally conscious companies are prominent among them."
- The Solar Powered Myth
- "...there are some very common misconceptions about solar power (and wind power)"
- Kite-Assisted Ship Prepares For January Maiden Voyage
- Harnessing the winds to propel ships around the world has been a successful form of renewable energy for hundreds of years. ...a new company called Skysails is reintroducing the concept to tankers and ocean transport mammoths looking to cut costs, reduce energy consumption, and put a little green in their portfolios.
- Energy Independence: How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit
- In 1976 the Danish public got behind an ambitious (and expensive) program to become entirely energy-independent
- GreenIQ » Get Your GreenIQ » Step 1
- Get Your GreenIQ
- New Year resolutions to green your home
- Have you been meaning to go green but couldn’t find the time? Start off 2008 by following these easy suggestions that don’t require any major renovations but can help reduce your carbon footprint.
- Breakthrough battery for electric cars?
- Toshiba promises 'energy solution' with nearly full recharge in 5 minutes
- Red, White or Green?
- Wine enthusiasts love to discuss the aromas of wine — the raspberries, the leather, the fresh-cut grass — but are we ignoring a prevailing whiff of petroleum? With some wines emitting three times their weight in greenhouse gas, the answer is yes.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Computer News
- Free Tools to Manage New Year's Resolutions
- To reach the goals you've set out for yourself in '08, follow through each and every one of the next 365 days—several free tools can help you with just that.
- AA Batteries - 2 cell pack - Use Cases - usbcell.com
- USBCELL can be used in the home, when at play or in devices you use every day:
- The 5 most annoying programs on your PC
- Elephantware. That is what we are talking about. Bloated programs that make brand new PCs boot like Pentium 2s with 64 MBs of RAM.
- Top Best 55 Photoshop Tutorials For Professional Photographers
- ...here you are all the techniques that are mastered by all the professional photographers of the world.
- The 5 users you meet in hell (and one you'll find in heaven)
- Ah, end users. We sure do love them. Why, most of us wouldn't have jobs without them. But that doesn't mean users don't drive IT crazy sometimes, or maybe most of the time.
- ImageFlow 0.8
- Display images on a virtual carousel.
- Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph
- For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph.
- How to surf the web even if Internet Explorer is disabled
- All you have to do is launch a Windows application like Calculator, and then click the Help button. ...[then]...
- Open Source Living
- Welcome to Open Source Living, an archive of the Web's best Open Source software, applications and references for a zero-cost / top quality digital experience.
- Flipping the Linux switch: 5 tips every new Linux user should know - Download Squad
- ...we've been thinking about what we most wished we'd been told on our first foray into Linux-land.
- The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?
- The perfect memory would be nonvolatile like flash yet provide access faster than the current generation of DRAM. Quantum dots, with their nicely tunable electronic properties, look like they may fit the bill.
- Chyrp
- Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality.
- 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic
- ...what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? here are some answers.
- Portal wins Onion pick for Game Of The Year at That VideoGame Blog
- The Onion’s AV Club has just released editor’s picks for top six games of the year. You might think that’s an odd number for a list, but even more peculiar are some of the picks.
- A Complete List Of Essential But Free Softwares for Windows
- Digital Inspiration has picked some of the best software programs and utilities for your Windows computer that are completely free and still extremely useful.
- 10 Sources for Free Computer Programming Courses Online
- Looking to increase your knowledge of computer programming? Here is a list of universities and other great sources that offer free computer programming courses online.
- Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers
- Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers
- Interactive Weather Presenting Kit
- A free [UK] CD to study the weather, and make weather maps, includes satellite images
- Google-powered mobile phones to make a February debut?
- Right now, it's what sits inside the phone that is most important.
- 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!
- This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup.
- Virtual Earth Screen Saver
- Check out the Virtual Earth Screen Saver ...The screen saver reads Virtual Earth permalinks from RSS feeds and uses the Virtual Earth API to show Birdseye and satellite images
- Everex gPC: Full Review - Reviews by PC Magazine
- Aside from being cheap and unaffected by Windows viruses, there's not a lot to recommend in the Everex gPC.
- How to Become a Gmail Jedi Master
- Learn to master Gmail through the use of labels, filters, keyboard shortcuts, vacation autoresponders, and the new IMAP support.
- How you can help prevent spyware occurring?
- Follow these wise Internet security practices:
Friday, January 04, 2008
Environment News
- And now for more good news
- Eat, drink and be merry, because in future it may be very expensive to eat and drink and there will be very little to be merry about.
- Flickr Photo Download: A close one ...
- Ever see lightening strike a tree?
- Man picks up NYC garbage, dusts it off and sells it for...
- What does he sell? Garbage. New York City picked-out-of-the-gutter garbage. Rubbish, you say? It may well be, but it's a lucrative business.
- Increasing Global Warming Decreases Forests' CO2-absorption Capacity!
- A recent study has revealed that with the consistent rise in the world temperature on account of Global Warming, the capacity of trees and forests to absorb the harmful greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is reducing at an alarming rate!
- Energy Independence: How Denmark Kicked Its Foreign Oil Habit
- In 1976 the Danish public got behind an ambitious (and expensive) program to become entirely energy-independent
- Possibly NOAA's National Weather Service Funniest Report
- That's some record snowfall :)
- Top 10 eco-buildings | Environment
- Vikki Miller looks at 10 of the most innovative and sustainable buildings around the country [UK]
- Where The Nature Conservancy Works - Year in Review 2007
- Protecting nature and preserving life on a global scale — 2007 was a year The Nature Conservancy fully inhabited that mission, from Africa to British Columbia, from Papua New Guinea to California. Read some of the highlights of our 2007 work below.
- Baby Mammoth Could Shed Light on Warming
- Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian baby mammoth undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven to extinction - and shed light on climate change, scientists said...
- Canada's Concern: And They Should Know They Live There
- A record loss of Artic ice made Canada's #1 weather concern for 2007.
- Tainted rainfall affecting parks
- Bits of ammonium - a nitrogen compound associated with agricultural operations and fertilizers - are hitchhiking on the snow and rain that fall onto Yellowstone, Glacier and other national parks in the intermountain West.
- Are There Really 'Continents' of Floating Garbage?
- Apparently, the rumors are true, and these unsightly patches are reportedly killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain, as well.
- Your Stuff: If It Isn't Grown, It Must Be Mined
- "In the sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing concentrations of substances extracted from the Earth's crust"
- Environmental activism reaches a global audience on Google Earth
- Green non-profits who are telling their stories on Google Earth include: United Nations Environment Programme, Appalachian Voices, Neighbors Against Irresponsible Logging, Jane Goodall Institute, and the Sierra Club.
- ENN: Biofuels: Let's look before we leap
- A commitment to biofuels should be based on a careful assessment of their prospective benefits and costs, not a blind leap of faith.
- The hard truth about ethanol
- The only economical way to make ethanol right now is with corn, which means the burgeoning industry is literally eating away at America's food supply. And most analysts conclude its environmental benefits are questionable.
- Year in review: Car tech gets political
- This year saw automotive technology turn into a political hot button.
- Schwarzenegger: California will sue federal government
- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sue the federal government over its decision not to allow a California plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he announced Thursday.
- Scientists Find Good News About Methane Bubbling Up From The Ocean Floor
- Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that only one percent of this dissolved methane escapes into the air –– good news for the Earth's atmosphere.
- Data shed new light on night clouds
- He thinks that the changes might be caused by human-generated global warming.
- Many Americans aim to go green in 2008: survey
- Three-quarters of Americans, the world's largest polluters, plan to be more environmentally responsible in 2008 by reducing household energy or recycling more, a survey showed...
Government News
- 9/11 commission leaders blast CIA on interrogation tapes
- The leaders of a US commission that examined the September 11, 2001 terror attacks accused the CIA Wednesday of having obstructed their investigation by withholding information about videotaped interrogations of terror suspects.
- The U.S. is Now an "Endemic Surveillance Society"
- The U.S. has been downgraded from "Extensive Surveillance Society" to "Endemic Surveillance Society," according to Privacy International's 2007 International Privacy Ranking
- U.S. Ruling Backs Benefit Cut at 65 in Retiree Plans
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that employers could reduce or eliminate health benefits for retirees when they turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare.
- Tsunami aid 'spent on politics'
- Three years after Australians donated $400 million to rebuild Asian lives devastated by the 2004 tsunami, aid groups are under attack for spending much of the money on social and political engineering.
- Articles on Condoms and Safe Sex Resources, Relationship...
- One shortage that does not get as much press, however, is the condom shortage that is happening across the globe.
- The Spectrum Swindle - Mises Institute
- On January 24 a strange transaction will take place. At least $4.6 billion dollars will change hands between one or more firms and the FCC. The likely payoff is estimated to be somewhere between $10 and $30 billion.
- How to Safeguard Your Privacy Online
- I can live with the fact that national security concerns may warrant some invasion of privacy ...I am not comfortable giving up personal information as to how I think for the sake of companies and their marketing departments serving me relevant advertising.
- Protectionism and My Stuffy Nose - Mises Institute
- ...Congress and the administration passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005, which rations the amount you can buy and requires that you prove your identity and sign a special form.
- Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950 - New York Times
- A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
- Immigration Ground Zero
- The new ground zero in the debate over illegal immigration is Arizona, where the nation's toughest and potentially most far-reaching crackdown on undocumented workers and their employers is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Internet News
- Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
- "I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007."
- User registration pages suck
- you must relentlessly streamline the process by which a user joins your site and avoid even this process as long as possible.
- What's Next on the Web: a ReadWriteWeb Toolkit for 2008
- There are some big trends I'm really excited about for the web in 2008.
- 45 Things You Can Learn Online for Free!
- You know what I love about the Internet? You can find courses, tutorials and lessons for almost anything - and many of them are free.
- The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org)
- For the fourth year running, here are some of my favorite articles, videos, games, photography, discussions, and design pieces that I linked to in 2007.
- The three business models that make Twitter a billion-dollar business in 12-24 months.
- When Twitter gets to scale here are the very obvious, and wildly lucrative, business models:
- 20 Websites With Unique Layouts
- The 20 sites listed here don’t simply use a typical two or three column layout.
- Streaming TV with Skype
- How would you like to use your Slingbox with Skype or is it Skype with Slingbox?
- The truth’s out there - honestly
- More often than not you will be directed to Wikipedia, where the answer is laid out for you. The only problem is, it may not be the right answer.
- Free Tools to Manage New Year's Resolutions
- To reach the goals you've set out for yourself in '08, follow through each and every one of the next 365 days—several free tools can help you with just that.
- Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph
- For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph.
- Aspiring radio hosts need only a computer, phone
- Anyone with dreams of being a talk radio star--ranting about sports and politics, chatting with callers, sharing recipes or car-buying tips--can play host on their own show, right on the Web.
- Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks
- ...oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little text box.
- Sneaky Trick for Accessing the Web
- "If you ever find that you're using a computer where internet use is disabled, here's a trick to access a hidden browser on windows."
- 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without
- I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.
- How you can help prevent spyware occurring?
- Follow these wise Internet security practices:
Animals in the News
- Where The Nature Conservancy Works - Year in Review 2007
- Protecting nature and preserving life on a global scale — 2007 was a year The Nature Conservancy fully inhabited that mission, from Africa to British Columbia, from Papua New Guinea to California. Read some of the highlights of our 2007 work below.
- 3rd Rare White Buffalo Born on Wisconsin Farm
- A farm in Wisconsin is quickly becoming hallowed ground for American Indians with the birth of its third white buffalo, an animal considered sacred by many tribes for its potential to bring good fortune and peace.
- Tigers maul tourist to death as he tries to take photo...
- A 50-year-old man has been savagely mauled to death by two tigers through the bars of their zoo cage as he tried to take a picture of them with his mobile phone.
- Tiger urine to scare killer elephant
- Forest officials in eastern India have advised villagers to stock tiger urine and excrement to scare away a killer elephant and his marauding herd.
- China Exclusive: Tiger eats tiger in NE China zoo_English_Xinhua
- A Siberian tiger in a zoo in northeast China was killed and eaten by four tigers it had lived with for five years...
- Death Row dog gets taste of freedom
- Duke the pit bull left the doggy equivalent of Death Row Friday for heaven on earth.
- Tiger Escapes S.F. Zoo Cage and Kills 1
- Investigators trying to determine how a tiger escaped its zoo enclosure on Christmas Day — killing one man and mauling two others — plan a thorough sweep of the zoo grounds Wednesday to look for clues.
- The Crossed Pond » The resurgent Sergeant Podge
- ...for at least the third time, this story has reappeared on the top of the ‘most emailed’ list on the BBC News homepage.
- Big bucks in shaggy dog story
- In a country whose residents spare no expense on their pets, self-service dog washes represent another splurge,
- Suspect Leaps Off Bridge With Police Dog
- A man being chased by authorities grabbed a police dog and leaped off a bridge, taking the animal with him into the cold San Diego Bay 200 feet below.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Society Culture Highlights
- Shower-ready suit to go on sale in Japan
- ...business suits, which can be washed in a warm shower and require no ironing...
- Death and Underachievement: A Guide to Happiness in Work
- The trite wisdom of contemporary folklore instructs us that the arrival of the New Year is a time to reflect on the achievements of the preceding 365 days and to bear down and “resolve” to achieve more in those to come.
- Free Tools to Manage New Year's Resolutions
- To reach the goals you've set out for yourself in '08, follow through each and every one of the next 365 days—several free tools can help you with just that.
- Web Playgrounds of the Very Young
- ...entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for children.
- Diversity Training Backfires
- Employers pay a lot of money for diversity training and sexual harassment training, but often the training backfires and blows up in the face of the employer that paid for it.
- 5 Reasons Why it matters to have the best looking breasts...
- Boob jobs in the environment of the fitness club
- Major Retailers Feel the Squeeze From Consumers
- As the nation’s merchants began poring -- or weeping -- over holiday sales receipts Wednesday, a surprising pattern emerged: even brands that for years have inspired the undying devotion of shoppers felt the pinch of tightening wallets.
- Techland Survey: More online ads, free content
- A new study reveals that the majority of consumers would rather be bombarded with online ads than pay for content on the Web.
- Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph
- For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph.
- Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950 - New York Times
- A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
- The Best Links 2007 (kottke.org)
- For the fourth year running, here are some of my favorite articles, videos, games, photography, discussions, and design pieces that I linked to in 2007.
- The truth’s out there - honestly
- More often than not you will be directed to Wikipedia, where the answer is laid out for you. The only problem is, it may not be the right answer.
- Google Thinks It Knows Your Friends
- “Reader and Talk are Friends!” That’s how Google announced earlier this month on one of its corporate blogs the expansion of the sharing features in Google Reader, the company’s service for viewing blogs. The feature didn’t win Google a lot of friends.
- 3rd Rare White Buffalo Born on Wisconsin Farm
- A farm in Wisconsin is quickly becoming hallowed ground for American Indians with the birth of its third white buffalo, an animal considered sacred by many tribes for its potential to bring good fortune and peace.
- Lessons from The Marathon Monks - How to Achieve the Impossible
- The Marathon Monks ...have a quest called Hieizan Sennichi Kaihogyo (Mt. Hiei 1000 Day Journey) that would seem impossible. ...The goal is to run the equivalent of the entire equator - or once around the world over an 8 year period.
- California's medical marijuana system in 'chaos'
- California's pot shops have admittedly become an easy source of supply for people who just want to get high.
- Love Shak, Baby: Yet Another Reason To Skip McDonald's
- "Oh, McDonald's, why do you vex me so? When you do the girl toy/boy toy thing it causes so much drama in my household."
- Zeitgeist: Gizmodo's Most Popular Hits of 2007
- Here are Gizmodo's Greatest Hits 2007, the most popular stories, the best of the best in a single bubblelicious list full of gadgets, juicy industry happenings, in-deep reviews, shocking tech news, weird war planes, Star Wars, boobs and sex.
- The U.S. is Now an "Endemic Surveillance Society"
- The U.S. has been downgraded from "Extensive Surveillance Society" to "Endemic Surveillance Society," according to Privacy International's 2007 International Privacy Ranking
- Magazine Monitor
- The most interesting and unexpected facts can emerge from the daily news stories and the Magazine documents some of them in its weekly feature, 10 things we didn't know last week. To kick off 2008, here are some of the best of last year.
- Will Smith angry over Hitler comment interpretation
- Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler.
- Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
- "I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007."
- Drivers on Cell Phones Clog Traffic
- Motorists who talk on cell phones drive slower on the freeway, pass sluggish vehicles less often and take longer to complete their trips, according to a University of Utah study that suggests drivers on cell phones congest traffic.
- How to Safeguard Your Privacy Online
- I can live with the fact that national security concerns may warrant some invasion of privacy ...I am not comfortable giving up personal information as to how I think for the sake of companies and their marketing departments serving me relevant advertising.
Health News
- Articles on Condoms and Safe Sex Resources, Relationship...
- One shortage that does not get as much press, however, is the condom shortage that is happening across the globe.
- Build Big Muscles Fast: Secrets of Total Body Muscle Building
- Want to build Big Huge Muscles? Then you must Squat!
- Keep Your Skin Look Younger During Holidays With Yoga!
- Among the well known natural skin care solutions, yoga is an effective one. Yoga helps in various aspects of your skin’s health. Here are some benefits of yoga in your skin care:
- Protectionism and My Stuffy Nose - Mises Institute
- ...Congress and the administration passed the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005, which rations the amount you can buy and requires that you prove your identity and sign a special form.
- Secrets of Weight Loss
- Just in time for 2008 New Year's resolutions, eight tips for losing weight.
- The World's Most Dangerous Drug - Methamphetamine
- Meth really is the mother of all drugs. It's the cheapest, dirtiest and most powerful drug in existence today. It's also the fastest spreading. Meth doesn't kill its addicts immediately. The process is slow, ...Meth literally rots people's bodies—teeth, face and insides.
- Stress: It's Worse Than You Think
- Psychological stress doesn't just put your head in a vise. New studies document exactly how it tears away at every body system--including your brain. But get this: The experience of stress in the past magnifies your reactivity to stress in the future.
- Genital Herpes Pictures not a sight to behold
- Medical students and medical professionals ...are able to face the reality and look at what most of us would rather not. What am talking about here is the genital herpes pictures.
- 5 Reasons Why it matters to have the best looking breasts in the health club
- Boob jobs in the environment of the fitness club
- Hospitals Look to Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer
- There is a new nuclear arms race under way — in hospitals. Medical centers are rushing to turn nuclear particle accelerators, formerly used only for exotic physics research, into the latest weapons against cancer.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Offbeat
- Wife killed by her pensioner husband and dumped among the Christmas presents 'feared for her life'
- A pensioner who was stabbed and bludgeoned to death by her mentally ill husband told police she feared for her safety days before the attack.
- Tiger urine to scare killer elephant
- Forest officials in eastern India have advised villagers to stock tiger urine and excrement to scare away a killer elephant and his marauding herd.
- » 9 year old kid plays the hardest Guitar Hero 3 song on expert True Men OF Genius: A blog for men, by men
- "...I must say watching this kid destroy the game makes me feel like a scrub barely scraping by on medium difficulty."
- After 45 years, woman gets haircut
- For 45 years, Darka Jakymchuk refused to cut her hair, growing the auburn tresses down to her ankles and pinning them up in an enormous bun each morning.
- Drunk Santa Trashes Theatre
- Ho, Ho, Ho you little $&#%er’s! This is what drunk Santa and his 49 clones were saying (and worse) when they invaded and trashed a theatre in New Zealand
- Wheelchair-Bound Woman Left On Tarmac
- A woman in a wheelchair traveling on U.S. Airways to Orlando was wheeled onto a tarmac in Las Vegas and forgotten about for hours, according to family members.
- Officer helps deliver Christmas baby
- Transit officer Steven Rocher got up before dawn on Christmas to deliver a few more presents to his mother's house. He ended up delivering a very special gift indeed.
- Meet the man with breasts in his leg
- For a man to have a boob job is unusual enough - let alone to have the silicone implants not in the chest, but in the leg.
- Incredible Building In Paris ! Video
- Was the designer drunk, or does it just look that way?
- Man Claims Skin Treatment Turned Face Permanent Blue
- Paul Karason puts a whole new spin on "feeling blue.” For more than a decade, the 57-year-old has been living with a blue face.
- Brain tumour sufferer has surgery on knee
- ...surgeons at Tanzania's main Muhimbili Hospital opened the skull of Emmanuel Didas to remove a non-existent brain tumour while Emmanuel Mgaya, who had the tumour, underwent knee surgery.
- Fukuoka fruit salad literally grows on tree
- A lemon tree that bears 11 different kinds of fruit ...including dekopon, hassaku orange, iyoyan, amanatsu, and banpeiyu, a variety of pummelo. (with picture)
- Man Spends Christmas Eve Stuck In Opening Of Septic Tank
- t was a stinky holiday for Robert Schoff. The 77-year-old man spent part of Christmas Eve stuck upside down in the opening of his septic tank, with his head inside and his feet kicking in the air above. "It wasn't good, I'll tell you what," Schoff said...
- Bronze sculptures end up being sold for scrap in Vermont
- Thirty stolen bronze sculptures are valued at $1 million - not by the scrap yards where most of them ended up.
- Man Carves Wife a 6,000 Stair Path in Mountain
- A weird love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half century.
- Love Shak, Baby: Yet Another Reason To Skip McDonald's
- "Oh, McDonald's, why do you vex me so? When you do the girl toy/boy toy thing it causes so much drama in my household."
- Referee pulls out red card, then a gun
- A Malaysian referee took out his gun and fired warning shots in the air after a local football match turned unruly following the suspension of a player...
- Japanese Fears Raised As ‘Warlike UFO’ Targets Mars
- Russian Security Analysts are reported to be joining Japan’s concerns over a series of ‘mysterious’ events occurring in space which, perhaps, suggests that the planet Mars is being ‘targeted’ by an ‘unknown’ alien spacecraft that has been transiting through our Solar System ‘disguised’ as a comet.
- Man picks up NYC garbage, dusts it off and sells it for...
- What does he sell? Garbage. New York City picked-out-of-the-gutter garbage. Rubbish, you say? It may well be, but it's a lucrative business.